The vacuum hoses have never been changed on my car - if I do them, what part numbers should I be looking for? I was thinking of perhaps changing the hoses, then checking if the code comes back after clearing it, and then changing the MAF and if the fault pops up again after clearing that with the scanner, perhaps having the lambdas done - is that a reasonable route to go?
Are there any fuses I should check as well?
If it still comes back after that then perhaps its a cambelt timing issue and if the price is too high, will need to decide whether or not I should have it done or if I should be getting rid. I've had the car for 7+ years and its the best car I've ever owned - until 2009 it was main dealer serviced, hasn't had a lot of use since then and was laid up for a year under wraps as I had a company car and didn't want to get rid of her, but as I was made redundant a month ago, I reinstalled the battery, booked an MOT which she flew through without even an advisory, but en route home the engine light came on - drives fine, no loss of power, but the idle sounds a bit rough.
Haven't driven her since then - about 3 weeks back - as I was looking for the elusive Ben who is local-ish and had repaired her last year (replaced alternator) just before she was laid up under covers - as I wanted to check what the problem was first. As I've had no luck tracing Ben or getting him to return calls, I remembered I had a code scanner, hence finding the fault code.........
Most of the independents around here seem to be a bunch of sharks or cowboys
so I'm nervous of just going to any of them - nor do I intend going to main dealers with a car of this age any longer as its just crazy price time there, too.
So would like to sensibly do whatever I can, or have it done methodicallly........